Recently installed Hive 2.1.1 on Ubuntu 16.04. Maybe not optimal steps, but it worked for me.

Installation

1. Download Hive from https://hive.apache.org/downloads.html, unpack archive to folder /opt/hive

2. Copy /opt/hive/conf/hive-default.xml.template to hive-site.xml

Edit hive-site.xml, replace all occurences of ${system:java.io.tmpdir}/${system:user.name} with /tmp/hive Continue reading →